“Introducing the world’s first ‘poezzle’!” Branding’s the name of this game; Raw talent versus luck of the draw; Solve this border-game puzzle; Nickelodeon and nickname odium

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Branding’s the name of this game

Take a well-known brand name that begins with the nickname of a historical person from the Twentieth Century. Remove the nickname from the brand name. Rearrange the remaining letters to spell a word associated with this person. 

Name the brand, the person and the associated word. 

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Struck Conundrum Dumb Appetizer:

“Introducing the world’s first ‘poezzle’!”

Note: The following composition by our friend Chuck is both a poem and a puzzle... Thus it is a “poezzle,” a new portmanteau term we have coined that is a combination of “poem” and “puzzle.” 

Enjoy!

Who Am I?

Deal the right card to play.

Grab the proper change to pay.

You’ve already seen what makes my day.

Note my Walk of Fame inlay.

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Geographic Slice:

Solve this border-game puzzle

Name what you call any resident of a particular country. This particular country borders multiple other countries. 

The last two syllables of the name of this
resident sound like something that does not border this country. 

What is this country?

Riffing Off Shortz And Feldman Slices:

Nickelodeon and nickname odium 

Will Shortz’s October 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Jay Feldman of Davis, California, reads:

What three common five-letter nicknames have the same last four letters and alphabetically consecutive initial letters? Or to put it another way, think of three common five-letter nicknames that have alphabetically consecutive initial letters and the same last four letters. Which common nicknames are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Feldman Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the three-letter nicknames of: 

1.) a woman who served as Treasurer of the United States, 

2.) an actress who co-starred with a character whose name rhymes with a synonym of “table tennis,” 

3.) an author known for writing articles about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra, 

4.) a puzzle-maker, 

5.) a man who was also nicknamed “The Ol’ Perfessor,” 

6.) a character appearing in Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence,” and 

7.) a person in the title of a Leo Kottke song whose first name is “Mona.”

Hint: These seven nicknames, respectively, begin with a B, F, G, J, K, M and R, and all end with the same two last letters.

Who is the puzzle-maker?

Who are the other people, with the nicknames beginning with B, F, G, K, M and R?

ENTREE #2

Take the nickname of a partner of a fellow nicknamed Ollie. 

Take the nickname of a partner of a puppet named Ollie. 

Take the nickname of a “kid” created by O. Henry.

Delete the second letter of the first nickname. Then delete the space between the second and third nicknames. The result is a U.S city.

What city is it?

(Juneau?)

What are the nicknames of the two partners of Ollie and the nickname of O. Henry’s kid?

ENTREE #3

What three common three-letter nicknames have the same last two letters and alphabetically consecutive initial letters? 

Or to put it another way, think of three common three-letter nicknames that have alphabetically consecutive initial letters and the same last
two letters. Which common nicknames are these?

Hint: Solo or Dynasty; Janis, Eagle or Fleming; van Loon or van Riebeeck.

ENTREE #4

What is the common four-letter nickname shared by people surnamed Alipui, Bett,
Caldwell and Drake?

Hint: Two of the four were singers.

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Gamey Dessert:

Raw talent versus luck of the draw

Board-game-playing experts draw on their raw talent, not the luck of the draw. 

Take a word describing such players. 

Spell it backward and insert a hyphen to name a word for something they might draw. 

What are these words?

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers
away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.